On Wed, 8 Jun 2011, Nicolas Palix wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 12:59 AM, Greg Dietsche <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On 06/07/2011 04:54 PM, Nicolas Palix wrote: > >> > >> I remember me having worked on that but I cannot find any patch > >> about it so your patch is more that welcome. Some users have requested it > >> some months ago. > >> > >> As far as I can remember, with "M=" you can not use $srctree only but > >> still > >> need it for the -I for instance. I think I then run into a situation where > >> I > >> have an ambiguity about how to setup the flags for coccinelle, but I am > >> sure > >> about the reason I dropped my patch. Maybe I don't know well enough the > >> build > >> system and options... > >> > >> So, don't hesitate to submit your patch. > >> > > > > I'll submit what I have done as a new thread / patch series. I've not done > > much testing with it and am certainly not any kind of build system expert, > > but it has worked well for me so far :) A few more people trying it out / > > testing it would be a great idea. > > I finally found the thread where we discuss this feature. > http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/7/2/279 > > I haven't the time to test your patch right now but at the time > the problem was in the patch mode which produces erroneous file names > (in the lines with ---/+++). > As far as I can remember, using the -dir and -patch options of > coccinelle doesn't work with external modules.
Can you give a concrete example? -patch is supposed to address the problem of undesired path elements, but perhaps it is not sufficient in this case. There could be a problem of knowing what the argument to -patch should be? julia _______________________________________________ Cocci mailing list [email protected] http://lists.diku.dk/mailman/listinfo/cocci (Web access from inside DIKUs LAN only)
